5 papers
Convergence of Replicator Dynamics in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma with Restarts
Benedict Russell, Chin-wing Leung, Paolo Turrini
We investigate a population of self-interested agents playing a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma under the trigger-restart mechanism. Under such a mechanism, agents play a sequence of s…
The Dynamics of Policy Gradient in Social Dilemmas with Partner Selection
Benedict Russell, Chin-wing Leung, Paolo Turrini
In social dilemmas self-interested learning agents face the choice between the societal benefit of cooperation and the immediate reward of defection. Significant evidence exists on…
On the Limits of PAC Learning of Networks from Opinion Dynamics
Dmitry Chistikov, Luisa Estrada, Mike Paterson +1
Agents in social networks with threshold-based dynamics change opinions when influenced by sufficiently many peers. Existing literature typically assumes that the network structure…
Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with (mis)information and its visibility at scale
Yueting Han, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi +3
Online attention is an increasingly valuable resource in the digital age, with extraordinary events such as the COVID-19 pandemic fuelling fierce competition around it. As misinfor…
Trust or Check? Understanding the (Evolutionary) Dynamics of User Trust in AI Systems
Adeela Bashir, Zhao Song, Ndidi Bianca Ogbo +21
As the capabilities and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems grow, trust in these AI systems is an increasingly urgent concern. Much research has focused on models of A…